Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 21, 2011

I’ve been thinking about this since Shonali’s thought-provoking post a few weeks back about how to social network smartly by being yourself online. What are we really up against (against ourselves) in the way we behave on social networks? Image: Erica Hart via Flickr, CC 2.0. Status is minimalzed.

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Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 26, 2012

While I haven’t given in to the craze yet, it’s impossible to ignore its meteoric rise in the world of social media, not just within our industry but in mainstream adoption. This is also a good time though for said teams to re-evaluate their adoption of new networks into their overall strategy. Compare audiences.

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Mindjumpers

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Boye web-conference in Aarhus Denmark in search of interesting social media case studies. Whereas the first demonstrated how a small cupcake business has embraced social media in terms of marketing, this post will concentrate on how a major charity organisation uses the various platforms to raise funds. The Haiti Case.

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Firebelly

JULY 27, 2010

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « Social Media News: Top 5 Stories of the Week | Main | 3 Stories That Rocked The Social Media World This Week » July 27, 2010 YouTube Tuesday: The Social Network Trailer The Social Network , aka "The Facebook Movie," hits theaters October 1st.

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Ari Herzog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

We use social networking sites for different reasons, but it is crucial to grasp the WHY. We owe it to ourselves to continue doing things — raking leaves, running errands, posting status messages on social networking sites — on our own schedules and for our own reasons. Understand Social Media in 3 Words.

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Harp Interactive

JANUARY 12, 2011

Backing up your social media information is helpful for personal use and a no brainer for any business with an active social presence! Imagine if your business Twitter account(s) were suspended (it happens more often than you know), deleted or disappeared entirely. HOW TO: Back Up Your Social Media Presence.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 10, 2011

Social media is an interesting animal. Image: digitalbob8 via Flickr, CC 2.0. And that made me think some more: what is the hidden remarkability in the lives of those we encounter every day – or, at least, every few days – in social media? Image: Shreyans Bhansali via Flickr, CC 2.0. Shavano.&#.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

At a recent BlogWell event I got a chance to hear Robert Raines from Chevron present his Social Media program and how he reports their activity into the Boardroom. It all starts with the Pulse Report that Chevron had produced by Edelman (their PR firm) using their Alterian’s SM2 social media monitoring tool. Technology.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 6, 2012

We met on someone’s blog, followed each other “home,” and now see each other on social platforms pretty much daily. We share each other’s links, support and tease each other on Twitter, and share brief direct message dialogues every now and again (no, not about you. Not the… time before last, anyway).

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Firebelly

JULY 13, 2010

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « 5 Fun Twitter Quizzes | Main | What the F**k is Social Media NOW? Video URL: [link] ] Chad Richards is the Social Program Manager at Firebelly Marketing.

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Adam Cohen

JUNE 11, 2010

Over the course of the last week, while working on social media initiatives for several clients, the following questions or situations came up: A client missing an opportunity to engage in a conversation (coupled with desire of agency team members to respond). Photo credit: swiv via flickr. How has Social Media Helped You? (8).

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Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 12, 2011

Image: dj0ser via Flickr, CC 2.0. I’ve lost count of how many responses I got via Twitter (thank you Jen Zingsheim for rescuing me from Facebook-search-hell). countless times on Twitter and Facebook, and I confess to using far too many smiley face emoticons in SM. Truly, I wasn’t trying to be a curmudgeon.

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Mindjumpers

JUNE 24, 2010

Blog About Clients Cases Tribesourcing Video People & Contact Bloggers « 4 Tips To Start a Blog Big Mashable Social Media Meetup in Antwerp » Everything You Need To Know About Social Media Posted by Anne Herngaard Jun 24th, 2010 Tweet We have stumbled across this useful resource made by the Candadian marketing company Eloqua.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Mom hat, jump online and feverishly Google their symptoms, you check social media to see if any of your friend’s children are sick. But what if you could connect with your doctor using social media ; asking for advice via a quick Twitter or Facebook message? If social media and blogs in the U.S

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Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

The social network, as most of us think of it, is nothing more than the likes of Facebook or Orkut, among others. While the discussion went on for a long time and everyone shared their opinions, it was highly engaging as all of us were simultaneously sharing our thoughts on Twitter. Image: cambodia4kidsorg via Flickr, CC 3.0.

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Direct Marketing Observations

APRIL 19, 2010

How can you protect your children from social media? Create a network via Ning. Tweet on Twitter. Create hundreds of profiles on hundreds on networks. Share images on Flickr. It goes viral in a social network and people get hurt. One might say, “Do we really need to&# ? and you know what?

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Ignite Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2020

Social networking as we know it was born in the 00s, but the last decade has seen the rise of social media’s true potential. As we look forward and wonder what’s in store for the next 10 years, let’s take a look back at what our favorite social media networks looked like in 2010. Twitter – 2010.

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Firebelly

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « 5 Facebook Stories From This Week You Need To Read | Main | Firebelly Work: J.C. 86% of these blogs (93) link directly to a corporate twitter account, a 300% increase over the 2008 study. The number one ranked company, Exxon Mobil, does not have a Twitter account.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali 7 Reasons To Add Amplify To Your Social Networks December 21st, 2010 Tweet I first heard about Amplify earlier this year; I believe it was at the January chapter meeting of IABC/DC Metro.

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SocMed Sean

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

There are a lot of ways to engage in social media, some of them effective…some of them not. If your organization is considering getting active in social or if you’re analyzing your current efforts, take a look at the following list and make sure you’re not undermining the success of your activities.

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Social Media Marketing

MAY 22, 2013

Each week, I compose a newsletter that includes a series of links about current events and trends in the worlds of technology, social media, mobile, communications and marketing in order to keep our wider team up to date on changes, newsworthy items and content that might be useful in their jobs. These are those links.

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Mindjumpers

AUGUST 2, 2010

So here’s a short checklist of how you can use social media to compliment your marketing activities. On a last note, when working on social media and marketing, it cannot be emphasized enough that tagging and linking is crucial to the number of results for your search.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 18, 2013

For those of us who’ve been using Twitter for a while, we sometimes forget that there are new adopters of the network every day. Trying to figure out Twitter back in the day was bad enough; can you imagine what it’s like these days? So here are 18 tweetable Twitter tips for newbies (check out that alliteration!).

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Firebelly

JUNE 24, 2010

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « YouTube Tuesday: What The HELL Is Social Media? Main | Are We Addicted To Social Media? » June 24, 2010 Jakes Take: A Slew of Social Network Ideas Almost everyone is aware of the major social networkingwebsites in existence.

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Small Business Mavericks

AUGUST 11, 2011

I recently noticed that the service has added several other social media services to its metrics, which increases its value a hundred-fold (though I’d still say it’s overly weighted toward Twitter). Flickr – The photo sharing platform. I suspect that Klout will add these sites someday soon.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 25, 2011

(By the way, the argument of pitching Facebook against Twitter, that the former could be made asymmetric by hiding feeds is rather pointless. Google+ cuts out the noise by adopting the “follow/unfollow&# conundrum, very similar to Twitter. Or are we in an infinite loop of growing out of social networks every five years?

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 21, 2013

When I first started writing this post, I was going to call it “How I Use Twitter.” ” Then I thought again, because a) I’m not as frenetically active on Twitter these days as I used to be, and b) who the heck cares how I use Twitter? Image: TheNextWeb via Flickr, CC 2.0. Taking it a step further.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 24, 2013

and will be particularly interesting to you if you work at the intersection of health care and social media. You put on your Dr. Mom hat, jump online and feverishly Google their symptoms, you check social media to see if any of your friend’s children are sick. If social media and blogs in the U.S

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The Realtime Report

APRIL 16, 2014

At the turn of the decade, Facebook and Twitter were the two giants in social media. As both social giants look to roll out new ad platforms in the coming months, now is as good a time as any to reflect on what they’ve done to meet the needs of today’s businesses. The Trouble with Twitter.

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Mindjumpers

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

If you click on a tweet you’ll get a detail pane on the right side of your timeline that shows more details of the tweet; such as embedded media. Media You can see embedded media without leaving Twitter such as YouTube videos, Flickr pictures and live streaming from Ustream and more.

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 24, 2015

If you want to compete in today’s fast paced business environment, you have to be social. But just simply being active on Twitter, Facebook, and all the rest is never enough. How can you track your social media efforts to ensure that your strategy is up to par? 5 Social Media Metrics You Can Stop Tracking Yesterday.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 21, 2012

When it comes to staying on top of social media, one of the big challenges we have is to find the social media tools that will help us achieve a happy medium between curating, listening, engaging and producing content. My primary platform for content curation is Twitter. HootSuite. Post Planner. buffer them).

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SocMed Sean

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

But social networks? So when Google+ launched, I jumped in again but was, again, seriously unimpressed with the “me too” nature of trying to copy Facebook, Twitter, and Skype. Remember when Google + was going to kill Facebook and Twitter? Facebook and Twitter are not going away. Not yet Google!

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 6, 2011

A while back, my dad asked me if he should be on Twitter for his business, which involves liquidating furniture. Not every audience is on Twitter. In fact, a lot of audiences aren’t on Twitter: based on a November 2010 study, the Pew Research Center estimates 8 percent of Americans use Twitter. I flat out told him no.

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Webbiquity SMM

JUNE 20, 2011

Amid all of the hype, conferences, and rapid adoption of social media marketing by organizations from sole proprietors to the Fortune 100, there remains an undercurrent of skepticism. This surfaces in posts like Social Media Skepticism , 5 reasons why social media skeptics maybe right and Business social networking: where’s the ROI?

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Firebelly

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « Courtney Love gets sued over tweets | Main | Cyber Monday Is Here! » November 24, 2009 Social Networking Meets Game Consoles There used to be a time where you could play video games for video games and use the computer for computer related things. Availability?

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The Realtime Report

MARCH 13, 2014

By using the Oscars as her platform and pure star power as a catalyst for buzz, the now-infamous photo boasts over three million retweets and, in addition to breaking a few records, the snapshot literally “broke” Twitter for a good while during the Oscars. Oftentimes, our social efforts may seem futile as we’re constantly chasing.

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